Section 250-155-1 - DEFINITIONS1. AGREEMENT: means the common safety regulations and procedures, adopted by the New England Transportation Consortium, to regulate the issuance of permits for the movement of certain non-divisible overweight and/or oversize loads on state administered highways.2. AGREEMENT STATES: means the collective group of states participating in the New England Transportation Consortium.3. AASHTO: means the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, a nonprofit association representing highway and transportation departments in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. AASHTO's primary goal is to foster the development, operation, and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system.4. COMBINATION VEHICLE: means a truck or truck tractor used in combination with a trailer or semitrailer.5. DAYLIGHT TRAVEL: means travel one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.6. DESTINATION: means the point where the overlimit load will be required by the applicable overlimit permit to cease movement upon open sections of the public highways within the context of the vehicle's current single move.7. ENVELOPE VEHICLE: means for purposes of this rule, any non-divisible oversize/overweight combination vehicle of three or more axles which does not exceed the maximum limits set forth in Section 3 of this rule.8. INTERSTATE COMPACT: for purposes of this rule, means the same as AGREEMENT.9. MOTOR VEHICLE: means a self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively on tracks or rail.10. MULTI-STATE PERMITS: means those overlimit permits that specify an origin and/or destination located outside the State of Maine. See New England Transportation Consortium (NETC).11. NEW ENGLAND TRANSPORTATION CONSORTIUM (NETC): means an agreement among the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont to issue multi-state overlimit permits for vehicles and loads meeting certain conditions and traveling on a designated highway network. The issuing state issues a single permit on behalf of all affected states.12. NON-DIVISIBLE LOAD: means a load which, if separated into smaller loads or vehicles, would : A. make it unable to perform the function for which it was intended, orC. require more than eight work hours to dismantle using appropriate equipment. Sealed oceangoing containers, spent nuclear materials in casks, and government-controlled military vehicles and their loads will be considered non-divisible.
13. ORIGIN: means the point where the overlimit load will be allowed by the applicable overlimit permit to begin movement upon open sections of the public highways within the context of the vehicle's current single move, and along those routes specified by the applicable overlimit permit.14. OVER HEIGHT/OVERHEIGHT: means height that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.15. OVER LENGTH/OVERLENGTH: means length that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.16. OVERLIMIT: means height, length, weight, or width that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.17. OVERSIZE: means height, length, or width that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.18. OVER WIDTH/OVERWIDTH: means width that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.19. OVERWEIGHT: means weight that exceeds the legal limit as established by each NETC state.20. PERMIT/OVERLIMIT PERMIT: means a document approved by the Overlimit Permit Unit allowing the legal transport of overlimit loads and/or vehicles upon public highways within a certain time frame, and under certain conditions.21. PERMITTEE: means the entity to whom a permit has been granted in accordance with this rule.22. TRUCK: means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to carry property. A truck may be used to tow trailers or semitrailers.23. TRUCK TRACTOR: means a motor vehicle designed and used exclusively to draw other vehicles and not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and the load drawn.24. VEHICLE: means a device for conveyance of persons or property on a way, excluding devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails or tracks.29- 250 C.M.R. ch. 155, § 1